The following is an article published on the 5th page of the March 16th, 1990 issue of the Spartan Daily, written by Daily staff writer Mark Smith.

The SJSU lacrosse club will be facing its biggest challenge of the season when it travels to Santa Clara University on Saturday at I p.m.

The Spartans "will be more physical," said SJSU three year player John Hagele, "but Santa Clara will demonstrate better finesse."

Santa Clara's lacrosse program is sanctioned by their athletic department and has a large team because the university awards' scholarships. Also the team has attained Division I status.

But the Spartans are only a club team and are lucky if they can field a starting line-up on road trips. This is the main reason why SJSU has only one win all year against eight losses in Division II play.

SJSU "is losing better than last year," said Hagele. "No team scored 20 points on us all year."

Last year Santa Clara crushed the Spartans 21-1 .

John Doss, a first year SJSU goalie, currently ranks fifth in the conference in save percentage.

"To rank in the top five in save percentage in one's first year is quite impressive." said Hagele about John Doss. "But John needs to improve on his throwing after his saves, because he keeps throwing to the other team."

The Broncos, on the other hand, have two goalies ranked in the top ten of their conference in save percentage.

Being undermanned already cost SJSU its make-up contest against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The Spartans had to forfeit the contest at the beginning of the third period.

Only traveling with 11 men with one being sick, the Spartans could only put the 10 required men on the field for the whole game. This number was cut down to eight when two defensive players. John Dohlnian and Dan Bird. were ejected for fighting, leaving the Spartans undermanned. The result was SJSU forfeiting the game.

Dohlman is notorious for his physical play, having broken three sticks this season.

 

First year Spartan defensive player Steve Young has been playing with a cast after breaking his wrist in an off-field accident.

SJSU will be playing on the field next to Toso Pavillion at Santa Clara. Game time is 1 p.m.

The Spartan's next home game will be on March 27 against UC Irvine at South Campus at 2 p.m. The field is located across the street from Municipal Stadium.